Study for Lunette in Library of Congress: Good Administration
Artist: Elihu Vedder (American ; 1836-1923)
Date: 1896
Dimensions:
Overall: 24 3/16 x 44 5/8 in. (61.5 x 113.3 cm)
frame: 29 13/16 x 56 3/4 in. (75.8 x 144.1 cm)
Classification: PAINTING
Credit Line: Gift of John Hemming Fry
Object number: 38.1.2
Catalogue raisonné: Soria #515
Inscribed: l.l. in oil: Copyright 1896 by E.Vedder; l.r. in oil: Elihu Vedder/ Rome 1896; verso l.r.: [NCFA exhibition label]; verso u.c.: [NCFA exhibition label, Brooklyn Museum]
Terms
- government
- allegory
- wheat straw
- figures
- thrones
- scales (weighing devices)
- books
- wheat
- allegorical figure
- justice
- throne
- Government
- books
- scale
Not on view
Exhibitions:Shift
The Anxiety of Influence: European and American Art, 1689-1913
Highlights and Recent Acquisitions from the American and European Collections
The Anxiety of Influence: European and American Art, 1689-1913
Highlights and Recent Acquisitions from the American and European Collections